Monthly Archives: February 2018

WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Sympathize

Remembering back to the days When I found peace in your eyes Thinking back on your ways It was always so easy to sympathize Learning about love from our first smile Walking hand in hand for many miles Our love … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Never Miss A Good Chance To Shut Up

“Never miss a good chance to shut up.” – Will Rogers  Seemingly harsh, it is sound advice.  An old half remembered adage states something to the effect that God created each of us with two eyes and two ears but … Continue reading

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First Principles: Virtue Is the Foundation of A Free Constitution

“The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure virtue.” – John Adams (1776) A person seems to keep wanting me to say something more than the founders of our republic said.  The choice posed to me is am I … Continue reading

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Sonic Gems: The Isley Brothers – The Heat Is On

Formed in the 1950s, the Cincinnati, Ohio vocal group, The Isley Brothers originally started as a gospel group before having one of the longest, most influential and diverse careers in modern American popular music.    In 1959, the group came … Continue reading

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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: William Shakespeare – Hamlet

Although in some circles it is believed that we do not even really know who William Shakespeare truly was, the ‘Bard of Avon’ is said to have been born on April 26, 1564.  The poet, playwright, and actor came to … Continue reading

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The Perfect Nanny

The Perfect Nanny by Michael Romani She didn’t know how to die Only how to give away death The story revolves as to why Perhaps, it is all she had left The modality of a perfect nanny For two quickly … Continue reading

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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Puzzled

With a lift of my glass, sometimes sipped sometimes guzzled I give you a look that tells you that I’m quietly puzzled The proposition is that it’s from the puzzles of the past That we find the answers that raise … Continue reading

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First Principles: Mental Stimulation Promotes the Wealth of Nations

“To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.”  – Alexander Hamilton (1791)   … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: It Is the Flaws That Helps Create Beauty

“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.”  – Havelock Ellis, physician, writer, and social reformer (2 Feb 1859-1939)        

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Sonic Gems: George Harrison – All Things Must Pass

Born on February 25, 1943, the English guitarist, singer-songwriter and producer George Harrison was the quiet Beatle and so any other things before his untimely death of cancer on November 29, 2001.  His embrace of Indian culture made its mark … Continue reading

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